earliest form of dwellings

Hard colored limestone

2 MAIN WORDS

A long deep passageway into an ancient subterranean tomb

greek of architecture

A curved structure for spanning an opening, designed to support a vertical load primarily by axial compression.

gate way of god

usually made up of reeds, brushes and wattles

Caves paintings in Africa, France and Spain

Tyranny, Feudalism, Monarchy, Music, Dancing, Wrestling

earthen mounds use for burials of several to couple hundred of ordinary persons.

Generally used Animal skins, wooden frames, animal bones

Two vertical members supporting a horizontal one

s an organized collection of belief, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to the supernatural, and to spirituality.

An arched structure of stone, brick or reinforced concrete, forming a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, or other wholly or partially enclosed space.

past events, discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information.

made up of 3000 stones

plenty of stone in the mountains but followed Babylonians in the use of brick.

2 or more uproght stone supporting a horizontal stab

The organization of settlements and the architectural structure of houses differed according to regions and periods and reflected environmental, economic and social changes

The Sumerians were among the first known cultures to develop many benchmarks that are used to define a "civilization”.

The principal form of construction.

a circular arrangement of megaliths enclosing a dolmen or burial mound

consisted of a timber frame with post supports and a skin covering

Humans hunted wild animals for meat and gathered food, firewood, and materials for their tools, clothes, or shelters.

Tree trunks, reeds, clay, and hay were used.

A stone-built subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a circular chamber covered by a corbeled dome and entered by a walled passage through a hillside.

the scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of a place

Overlapping arrangements of bricks or stones in which each course projects farther out than the course below

the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of a place

Made from tree barks, Animal skins & Plant leaves

a very large stone used in ancient construction work.

megalithic monument erected in the early Bronze age c2700 B.C. Located in Wiltshire, England, consisting of four concentric rings of Trilithons and menhirs centered around an altar stone

Two upright megaliths supporting a horizontal stone

is commonly defined as the weather averaged over a long period

Walls were composite structure of sun-dried bricks faced with kiln-dried bricks

A tomb of the Aegean civilizations consisting of a deep rectangular cut into sloping rock and a roof timber or stone.

latin of architecture

A beam or other rigid structural member extending beyond a fulcrum and supported by a balancing member or a downward force behind the fulcrum

consisted of thick timber posts, reeds, clay and stone for foundations and the upper structure

• A single, large upright monolith • Serves a religious purpose

A structural frame based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of linear members subject only to axial tension or compression

gradual domestication of plants and animals •farming and agriculture was practiced